Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1887-07-09
A SUSPICIOUS LOOK.



Under Peculiar circumstances
Ottawa lkasl speelAl On Saturday
morning. June IS. J. d. Tennyson. pros
p porous farmer Of Oxford township. thl
: county, died under suspicious eircum
stances al his home. six miles east Of Len
; eats. He vas barred in due time. and his
soH Henry took out letters Of administra'
tian on the estate. With Tom Freeman and
John James as his bondsmsn. The at
tending physician was Dr.. Sprnill, who
called Dr.. Chase, OF Shawnee. ia eonsulta-
tion. Mr.. Tenuyson was SEX about a
week. and DR.. SpruiH treated him for ma
iarial fever, but his suspicions that things
were not going right Were aroused from the
time be was first called. The patient was
taken with vomiting aud pungins. but All
the medicine given him took no ciisct or
seemed to be eounteraeted by some other
and stranger force He kept getting worse.
and on the Friday night before he died
DR.. Spruill decided to remain with him.
The family went to bel. aud about
o'clock the doctor. who meanwhile
had fallen into n dozs, was awakened By
the grooming OF Mr. TennysOn. who seemed
70 be suffering with intense pain He called
the members OF the family who went into
the siek-room where the doctor went-and
discovered goblet containing liquid with
"a white powder in the bottom. As he had
given no such medicine. he asked what il
was end where il came IRON. bus no an
swer was made 10 his inquiry. He then
tasted the liquid and powder and found il
TO be arsenic in his judgment. Meanwhile
Mr.. TennysOu grew rapidly worse and DR..
Chase was sent for. but the patient died in
about an hour. suffering the most intense
agony. Both doctors express the belief
that be died from arsenical poisoning, as
he seemed to have all the symptoms OF
sleh case. The feeling OF foul play spread
like Wild FIRE and the whole community be-
came greatly excited. and demanded a post
norton examination. The ls' tsrs 81 nd
minlstFation we're granted Tuesday, but
Friday the bondsmen came to this cts TO
get released from their responsibility. This
added fuel to flame, which was further in.
creased BY the demand that the proper
officials hold an investigation. Accordingly
This morning Or. James Hamil, the coro-
uer, accompanied by County Attorney
Parker, Sheriff Hedrick. Drs. Greene anl
Esleston aud II. A. Perkins, editor Of
the Mirror. had the body exhumed
The coroner impaneled the iollowing
jury: A. j. James, L. S. Staver. Fred lie
gler, @. L. DalrymDle. Henry Allen aud Eli
ward Moody, who held an inquest in Lin.
lily residence. None Of the family was sub
penaed and the testimony taken was that
OF she attending physicians and neighbors
D .. Green and Egleston. under the direc-
ton OF the coroner, conducted the exami-
nation. The stomach, yiscere, kidneys and
liver being strongly infamed, were taken
charge Of by the officials who will send them
for examination TO Prof. Bailey, the pro-
lessor OF chemistry at the state university
IN Lawrence. The jury came to definite
conclusion, but resolved to await the re-
suit Of the chemical analysis and adjourned
the inquest until July IL. No arrests were
made. The family has been regarded as
among the wealthiest and most prominent
IN that part Of the country They had
lived on the same iarm for thirty two years.
A short tim ago Mr.. Tennyson sold the |
property. consisting Of $50 acres. for $685. |
600, and he had Si2, 600 in the bank be- |
sides. II the analysis develops arsenieaI |
poisoning the case willexeite the most wide
spread interest.